october is

my favorite month.

and it seems to be making everyone around me either significantly happier or, sick with a cold.

october is atlanta celebrates photography month.
a 31-day tribute to my favorite art form.
yes.
it will be keeping me busy, gallery-hopping day in and day out.


( i caught only the tail-end of it last year, as i was just returning from montana )


my wonderful church has a gallery and this month's work is entitled "expressions", which showcases the art (in all kinds of forms) of the members and/or regular attenders.
i have a small series of diptychs hanging in a row.

this is just one:



the opening is this sunday evening and if you live in atlanta i would love if you would come and enjoy the evening with me a slew of remarkable people (dancers, musicians, film-makers, painters, etc, etc):




i'll share more soon.
thanks for all your encouragement, really.

love,
L

prior to this past weekend,

i had not photographed a wedding in quite a while it seems.
i flew two hours south of my home and had the most wonderful vacation.

having never met this couple before, it thrilled me to get to know them through my lens.

i certainly don't think this is unique to me -- every photographer must feel this at some point -- but it's as if i am instantly connected with someone once they have looked at me through that black box of mirrors and glass.
i was reminded to tell you this, whilst i stayed by the ocean.

i don't make a thousand analyzations about your soul once you've given me that "look" but i do feel as though i have the deepest and most likely potential to really, really know you. and more often than not, i feel as though i actually do know you(for who you are that i can tell, strive to be and the lovely things i myself see about you).
it's strange and wonderful.
i am baring a part of my soul here, folks.

i don't like to post business-y things on here and i don't know why but i will this one time.

i am not on the wedding circuit (although i'd like to be, with zola of course), but i completely enjoyed capturing this.

these photographs are random moments throughout the day and i hope you like them:

i have never written so much on here.

hopefully it wasn't too long-winded.

and, more soon.

love,
L

it's wonderful

to photograph people i love and am related to.

it's just as wonderful that they let me shoot my camera at them.


my lovely cousin elizabeth is engaged to the greatest guy, josh.
i am honored to have been given the chance to document this season of their lives, for an hour.
we found the most beautiful golden light and i got to catch just a glimpse of how in love they are.

(thanks for a wonderful evening, you two. and congratulations, of course!)

the older sister of this girl also happens to be my most faithful blog reader.
chrissi understands what i am so very passionate about and has always encouraged me in the most precious ways.
her new house is *wonderful* and i'm so thrilled!

she and her little man let me photograph them yesterday afternoon:

love,
L

so,

aforementioned musically inclined friend:

decided to drive to nashville on friday evening, and was kind enough to bring me along.

the 130+ miles from chattanooga to nashville is breath-giving at 7 pm.
the open spaces i saw just vaguely reminded me of a place i once lived.

we heard two gentlemen known as

hammock

play astoundingly beautiful (for lack of a better and more powerful word) sounds in a small restaurant. it was, calm and wonderful. and fulfilling:

i must go.
it has been just a wonderful past few days.

love,
L

a dear friend

of mine,
has been writing and recording music for the past little while now.
and it happens that he makes the kind that i love and will listen to all day and in all kinds of weather.
he is brilliant and wildly creative:

an empty room

. . . . .

i think i bought, yesterday, the last two packages of polaroid 600 film left in my whole city.
a few months ago i started finding a lot of good one-steps at thrift shops and bought them up as i have a habit of collecting things.
and i think they weren't lying when they said they were going to discontinue the film.
i am so sad!

. . . . .

it was around a year ago today that i was in butte, montana with two of the most remarkable people i know.
and the sun was hot while the air was cool and we found the greatest antique shop where i bought some small ink bottles.
and we found an abandoned building with black-birds spray-painted on the walls and we photographed each other freely and with ambition:


. . . . .

i haven't much else.
i've been photographing lovely people for my business.
which i won't show here.
as they are on my website instead.

i felt adventurous today and that's such a good thing.


love,
L

so many things

are changing around here, these days.

and i'm staying busy.

but here are people that let me photograph them, work un-related:

this is sujin. she is from seoul, korea and has decided that it would be nice to live with us for her sophomore year of high school.
she is sweet as can be and i am beyond thrilled
(but my only fear is that she'll learn english and return to korea with a southern twang, ack!):

and, you must now be well acquainted with my dearest friend:

(who has left me for a better city)


i will tell you more things, soon.

love,
L

for the past

few weeks, i have sat on my front porch in the early-morning hours.

just something about the fullness of outside, and a chorus of night-time bugs making certain i don't think too much in its stillness.


i have just been overwhelmed with blessings lately.
and people who are showing me things and helping me to learn in the most beautiful ways.


here are some fun things that i've done lately:


this gentleman lived next door to me for two months this summer.
i just, wish that you could know him.
not to mention that he got up at 7:30 so i could photograph him in the new morning light:



meredy, at the square (who is always beyond patient with me, even the thick heat):



holly is pleased to be photographed, often:



i had the most wonderful honor of photographing the hart family last week.
it's always such a treat to capture the moments of a fellow photographer.
i will be assisting katie at a wedding in september and i am *thrilled* to be working alongside of a such an illustrious artist!


whoa,
this has turned very long.
i will write again soon.

love,
L